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Safari: deleting history only
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Brien
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Jul 21, 2020, 12:18 AM
 
On both iOS and macOS, for the past 3-4 years Apple has merged all the things and it seems you only have the choice to delete history AND cookies AND data.

Is there ANY way to delete JUST history, or JUST cookies, anymore?

(Does Apple hate pro users?)
     
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Jul 21, 2020, 02:12 AM
 
This is for macOS. I don't have an iOS device to check.

Safari -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Manage Webside Data... (button) -> lets you delete cookies. Individually or all.

Safari -> History -> Show All History -> select individual history items (or ranges) and hit Delete.
- or -
Safari -> History -> Clear History... -> clear by time range, or all.
     
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Jul 22, 2020, 06:09 PM
 
Sorry Brien but it looks like the iOS version of Safari doesn’t give us those separated options. And it looks like Safari depends on iCloud for a lot of stuff, so maybe Safari on other logged in devices will be cleared.

But maybe that also means that from a Mac OS device you could delete just history, just cookies, etc., and that would be reflected on the iOS device... Maybe.

Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
     
   
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